No one kwew at the time, but when she gives this interview, in february/77, she was already very ill (ovary cancer). She died in december/77. That´s why she says that she is so tired, even tired of herself.

I love her insistance on being an "amateur" in order to retain her freedom.

@FerneyManrique

5 жыл бұрын

That also caught my attention and it is the absolute key. I never believe in the professional artist myth.

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

@@FerneyManrique Ding dong, Rothko's at the door! Oh look, he took Vincent with him! Virginia Woolf too? Ohmygod, I wonder who else is joining this party!

She manages to answer very honest while being completely guarded,

@joaov.m.oliveira9903

4 жыл бұрын

Her son said she was not normal at that time (already affected by ovarian cancer). It's sad because according to him, she was a cheerful person.

@urzsulaz2604

3 жыл бұрын

That s Clarice Lispector

@soulhoney1908

3 жыл бұрын

Hello

@SE-ZESS

3 жыл бұрын

🎯🎯🎯

@harrisonlee9585

2 жыл бұрын

Just like her prose.

Honest and yet mysterious, simple yet deeply complex beyond the apparently simple words. She was phenomenal.

@jgalembeck

7 жыл бұрын

facebook.com/EnglishClarice/

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty ironic your description is exactly what she's describing at 19:40

@alidohorizonte

3 жыл бұрын

It’s so awesome that our brazilian goddess Lispector is so appreciated in the USA.

@rayjr62

3 жыл бұрын

@@alidohorizonte Sadly, she would not live to see 1978. She must have been already sick with cancer when this interview was taped.

it makes me so emotional reading all these comments here from people around the world... that's what clarice always deserved... to be read and read and read... feel blessed for being able to read her work in the language she wrote it herself... a writer who wrote in portuguese and was born in ukraine... sad days for her home country.

gosh I'd spend hours on youtube if there were more interviews from her. this is one of my favorite interviews I've ever seen from anyone.

@rafagambardella

4 жыл бұрын

same here!

@DarkAngelEU

3 жыл бұрын

Same. She's so frank and doesn't dare to admit she doesn't have any answers, even gets annoyed when the director insists there must be at least something she has to say or think about these questions and she just goes "no, I don't care". She doesn't play this stupid game of fame, which other writers more than often do. They think highly of themselves, because they always thought they deserved this kind of attention. She doesn't seem to think this way. She's a private person and she doesn't give in to this pressure. I really like that. Artists today are always forced by their labels, galeries or publishers to go out there and do interviews, either to explain or defend their work, it's more often than not part of their contract to be a public figure. Imagine what kind of talent we are wasting just because of this, a time where people like Lispector wouldn't be able to get anything published because she'd be unwilling to play this silly game of "Look at me, I'm special too!".

@ofabioblanc

Жыл бұрын

This is her only tv interview. It was taped in Jan/1977 and she died in december 1977. She agreed to this interview under the condition that it would only be aired after her death.

"I'm speaking from my tomb..." holy Moly, that was profound. Hell of a way to end an interview. One of the best writers. RIP.

@roxannecoyne2744

Жыл бұрын

I had the same reaction. It was like a bomb that just went off and the interviewer just let it sit there. Wow.

@pomberorajy

Жыл бұрын

She died from ovarian cancer some months after this interview, i believe she knew she was dying. I have come to this interview many times throughout these years, it's the line I remember the most.

@Lucinda_A1

Жыл бұрын

It makes me wonder when was this interview taken. Great interview by the way, but, it also makes me wonder why this had to be the last sentence. I have just purchased her ,,Near to the Wild Heart,, book and I can’t wait to begin to read it. I already love her. What a person! ❤

10:40 This was probably done by a native English speaker. Predileto means favorite, not prodigal like on the subtitles.

The silences between her words were so full...

“I’m speaking from my tomb.”

I have never felt more comfortable with my writing than I do now, after having discovered Clarice's "Aquà Viva". So grateful.

Better than food sent me here~🎵

@jgalembeck

7 жыл бұрын

facebook.com/EnglishClarice/

Reading her lengthy collection of short stories has been for me a singular revelation- she went deep into existence - her observations regarding the human psyche are incisive, coldly precise and dispatched with surgical precision and yet they emerge as poetry full of exuberance. She relishes in experimentation, in upsetting the apple cart, dissuading the reader of all preconceived notions..

Una Donna straordinaria, meravigliosa… una Profetessa. Amore infinito ❤️

“The Egg and the Hen”, “Mineirinho” and “The Passion According to G.H.” are incredible works. Changed my life. Simply the best writer of all times ❤

why!!! why we have just a video from her! yes, we have her books to understand her way of thinking, the world in her mind but i still would like to hear more about her, see her mimics, her smoking, gesture. i watched this video so many times, and never get bored. she is definitely a great soul.. mysterious..

@mateussouza4021

6 жыл бұрын

intricacy is so great to see people from other countries appreciate a Brazilian writer

@tyepannew3832

5 жыл бұрын

it's the only interview she gave for tv. she died some months later

@amandaf942

5 жыл бұрын

is someone who pulls you in ... and the pauses and silences are also very eloquent ...

@Kanae2062

5 жыл бұрын

As far as I concern she wasn't fond to be recorded, actually, she asked this interview to be published after her death.

@rogerioferreira2819

4 жыл бұрын

Try this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mouNtY-mXbPJlJc.html

14 years asking this question, receiving 'he must be insane' stares back, I finally found a human who asked the same. "Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?"

Sincerity, mystery, brevity, beauty. For me she exists forever!

The first book I read in my life was written by Clarice. It's a book called "O mistério do coelho pensante" (The mystery of the thinking rabbit). Today, she is my favorite writer

Somehow, it's impossible to recover from seeing this earnestness, this in-person distance that has nothing to do with disdain. I wish I could have known her.

@estebanb7166

4 жыл бұрын

Two exceptional sentences. Good on you.

Apesar de cansada e triste, há um humor constante na fala de Clarice.

@rafagambardella

4 жыл бұрын

verdade!

"E só estou triste hoje porque estou cansada"

@rafagambardella

4 жыл бұрын

genial, neh!

Dios mío, no me es posible contener las lagrimas al escuchar a Clarice, decir: Estoy hablando desde mi tumba. ¿Qué mayor fuerza se puede tener?

@jorgerio6888

3 жыл бұрын

en este momento Clarice ya estaba muy enferma y el cancer tambien avazaba muy rapidamente... estaba muy deprimida tambien...

@srizzo4213

2 жыл бұрын

@@jorgerio6888 Ela não sabia que estava enferma quando deu essa entrevista. Descobriu o cancer pouco antes de morrer.

this was her last interview. she was SOO DEPRESSED and sad at that time

@howsoever

Жыл бұрын

and ill

It’s unbelievable to have this woman in video, such a blessing to hear her voice!

The world will never know her like again.

Amazing author!

@MaryCatherineCowardiceQueen

7 жыл бұрын

Cowardicequeen.blogspot.com

@jgalembeck

7 жыл бұрын

facebook.com/EnglishClarice/

Look at her stare, wow. There's a very strong being there.

Minha escritora favorita, Clarice trazia uma carga emocional sei lá algo muito louco para seu livros, sempre que leio vem uma onda de sentimentos. É emocionante ver essa entrevista.

This is her only TV interview ever, and she gave it shortly before her death. Depressing, but honest for her as usual. What an extraordinary writer she was.

Falava de A hora da Estrela, romance maravilhoso

@sea-goatbr7588

4 жыл бұрын

Sim. Arrepiante ouvir ela falar com tanta humildade e honestidade como se fosse algo qualquer.

Sacrificed in modernity, modern age. The last golden years of "labels". She'd wanted to be an ordinary and loved person alongside a writer. But couldn't find it. If she were lived today, may be, she would have been happy to show her daily life humanity together being a writer and share them at a fan group on Instagram. One day i think the old times were gold times and sometimes i see those times as dark as the distopic future. If i watch this dead woman a couple minutes more, i'll need some more sertraline.

thank you for this. clarice was such a beautiful soul.

such a impactful author, just love her💖

This is one of the best interviews I've seen of any author -- cutting question after cutting question.

Looks that she js always angry, but she is just sad... it's her eyebrows that make her seem agry! Amazing woman

@joaov.m.oliveira9903

4 жыл бұрын

Her son says she was already feeling the effects of the disease (though unknowingly). She was usually cheerful.

@soulhoney1908

3 жыл бұрын

@@joaov.m.oliveira9903 ovary cancer probaly

@joaov.m.oliveira9903

3 жыл бұрын

@@soulhoney1908 Yes.

Gracias por el video

13:26 I’m sure one of the writers was the former president of the Brazilian academy of letters, Nelida Piñon. They were best friends and Nelida was with her in her deathbed.

i have always felt she is quite underrated. thanks for posting this!

@martinrevoiralynch4460

7 ай бұрын

Im form another south american country, and that thing you point out is because Brazil has some USA traits. It"is by itselfe": it is too big compared to other countries from south america, its the only one with a different lenguage, even when understandable as in this interview, and has a different story from independence and so on, that they looks inside their own and we dont look too much to them. They neither looked to Portugal because they overshadowed them, so their connection with europe is not the same as latinamerica with Spain. So culturally is an isolated country. This has been changing in the last years.

Clarice Lispector tecia com a lingua portuguesa os labirintos em que mostrava a alma humana sem fábulas, feijões milagrosos, utopias.

Definitely the best author!!!

Ela estava com câncer e provavelmente sedada e triste pela sua condição tanto que faleceria no mesmo ano em que ocorreu esta entrevista. Nota-se que está muito depressiva. Clarice amo vc, estejas onde estiver. Um beijo querida.

@tyepannew3832

8 жыл бұрын

ela ja morreu, nao vai receber o beijo. valeu pela intençao

@JuniorJr...

7 жыл бұрын

Provavelmente ela receberá, já você... nem viva(o)

@tyepannew3832

6 жыл бұрын

morreu morreu. papai noel nao existe, alice

@johnhancock8556

4 жыл бұрын

@@JuniorJr... AGORA NÃO PARO DE PENSAR EM UM CADÁVER RECEBENDO UM BEIJO.

@JuniorJr...

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnhancock8556 dá uma olhada no espelho... verá um cadáver ambulante. Um nada; morto por dentro.

In 1977, writers lived under a terrible censure of military dictadure. Tortures, kidnappings, death squadroons, murders and violence... This television program was in a public television and this answer to "the papper of writers in Brasil today" was considered provocative and dangerous for many, many people. For feel the tension of these days, compare with the interview of Brazilian singer Ellis Regina in the same period and program. Hard times, very hard times...

@fernandosantosii5276

4 жыл бұрын

Bullshit! Newspapers and magazines were not closed. Even a publisher called Universo whose owner was a notorious communist later said that the military were the ones who gave the most money to culture because they feared the social "pressure cooker" bursting. We had music festivals, theater, carnival, etc. The connivance of the military was so great that today the socialists occupy the entire cultural and intellectual sphere of Brazil. Only the radical communist group suffered.

@sea-goatbr7588

4 жыл бұрын

@@fernandosantosii5276 Essa galera de direita devia voltar no tempo. aiai

@world100ti

4 жыл бұрын

@@fernandosantosii5276 Precisely... You are absolutely right...these left-wing lunatics should go back to their caves!

@melkor77751

3 жыл бұрын

@@fernandosantosii5276 volte pra sua bolha

@murilo3729

3 жыл бұрын

@@fernandosantosii5276 Sure! And everyone there had a collective hallucination. Maybe the media did something with our heads in that time, isn't it?

Maravilhosa!

She's my favorit 🇧🇷❣

There's a movie in the making based on "The Passion According G.H.", from the acclaimed brazilian director, Luiz Fernando Carvalho...

@guilhermehenrique6096

3 жыл бұрын

Nem saiu ainda, estou esperando com todas expectativas possíveis

@18p3pi

3 жыл бұрын

QUÊ?!?!?!?!?! Luiz Fernando Carvalho que fez Lavoura Arcaica?!?!?!?!

@alexandrecosta_1981

3 жыл бұрын

@@18p3pi sim... Tenho que assistir...

very interesting

Aspect raaay-sheee-ooohh!

Uma mente brilhante e intrigante 🧐

Lovely woman

Her written Portuguese is impeccable. When speaking she makes no mistakes but with a very noticeable accent...

@tyepannew3832

8 жыл бұрын

it is not an accent, it's because she had a lisp (sigmatism)

@gustavosauerrentas

7 жыл бұрын

Bruno no Surname you suppose portuguese is not her mother tongue? She wans't born in Brazil but she came to live here when she was 1 yo

@maycowranover

7 жыл бұрын

mother tongue AAAAAAAAAAAA KKKKKKKKKKKKKK

@ressnar

6 жыл бұрын

Agre , she has northeastern accent with foreign pronunciation , mostly the middle "R"

@calligeniap.9025

3 жыл бұрын

@@maycowranover falar "mother tongue" é aceitável, não seja precipitado

I love when she says I don't know.

Diosa de la literatura❤

If you all think it is interesting just by what she says, imagine hearing it on your native accent! She left Recife, but Recife never left her. That "E eu sei?!" Hahaha

@mjeffbr

2 жыл бұрын

curioso que ele parece ter um sotaque estrangeiro, não sei se é por medicação, algumas palavras têm uma pronúncia estranha. Não soa muito pernambucano o sotaque, quase nada

@gemstonesparkle7915

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjeffbr Soa sim

@srizzo4213

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjeffbr Ela tinha a língua presa, não era sotaque.

@eita6297

10 ай бұрын

Esse "e eu sei!?" me pegou também, como pernambucano. Deu até saudade de casa. E não, ela não tinha sotaque, tinha a língua presa.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a past life regression dream of being her, and her name. I had no idea who she was, I'm Scottish. I googled up the name and 1920s journalist/writer and she came up.. I told my friend, she's very similar to my energy. I like to write and create also. I'm 18. I wonder if I was her.

@amandaf942

5 жыл бұрын

that beautiful, passion for Clarice crosses borders

@ayllaraquel4739

5 жыл бұрын

That's a Nice feeling... For me I can say Clarice Lispector is my friend even If she doesn't know me... But when I'm Reading her book, it's like If she were in front of me... The best book of her in my opinion It is "A hora da estrela", It is her last book...

@estebanb7166

4 жыл бұрын

Spoiler: No, you were not.

@GabrielSoares-ju9yq

4 жыл бұрын

oh boy...

@wagnergaldinoalves

4 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielSoares-ju9yq oh boy endeed

My girlfriend was seriously ill but she survived I said to her - you were dead but now you are alive again,I'm dead now it's my turn I'm dead - speaking from my tomb.

La hora de la estrella

THIS!

Entirely outside the reality of life

@blinknpoof

4 жыл бұрын

thats interesting, for me is the exactly opposite, we for some reason can't get this high dose of reality that Clarice seems to take

@reinaldodesflamino2764

2 жыл бұрын

May be reality was too cruel for her at the moment because she was dying of cancer. She wanted to live.

Pity that the interviewer doesn't ask follow up questions. Seems like he's just reading a script. I would have loved to know more about the never-ending story Clarice talked about.

@judegray698

3 жыл бұрын

maybe he tried but from the interview itself her face , tone she was really tired , sad and anxious .... her answer also didn't give him a lot for follow up and maybe he tried but was told to keep is simple and on the point add to that dying shortly after this interview of Ovarian cancer whatever she give her is GOLD

@flavia7156

3 жыл бұрын

He was taking it easy. Everything she said is what she is. Nothing more.

Her insistence on never being a 'professional' writer is very profound & it shows in her rather strange/unique writing style.

Why can't Penguin fix this so the aspect ratio is correct?

How long after this interview did she enter hospital?

@TristanDeCunha

9 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see the she died on 9 Dec, '77.

@eligustavleven

8 жыл бұрын

+TristanDeCunha 4 days

♥️

💛✨

la novela es "La hora de la estrella"?

There is another interesting audio interview (recorded in 1976) available on KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2atpMNyh7HUoNo.htmlsi=XS0QW006MQyyQMTj I find Clarice with a lighter disposition on that one, maybe the interviewers also deserve some credit for it.

I like that she is smoking 🚬 even though she is dying from cancer. That’s heroic. That’s freedom. Thats everything. 🥃🚬

@13:42 A hora da estrela

Noo na hora que ela fala que a mãe fazia poesia, o entrevistador vai direto pro roteiro, sem perguntar nada a respeito é de falta de educação... da até agonia de ver

Great writer,but seems completely joyless.

@galdutro

Жыл бұрын

She was battling cancer at the time. Unfortunately she would lose this battle.

Surprisingly, the best female Brazilian author speaks Portuguese with a very elegant and marked somewhat Baltic accent. Her written command of the language is indisputable. What a lady.

@sarahcunha4532

4 жыл бұрын

She moved to Brazil when she was 1 year old... she had a lisp (sigmatism) and her parents were from Ukraine, but she is a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker

@Homoclassicus

3 жыл бұрын

It's not an accent. She explained it: she had a harmless deficiency in her speech, a sort of lisp, so she had trouble pronouncing some consonants accurately. She came to Brazil when she was just 4 months old, she couldn't have been influenced by foreign languages much. She always said she felt as a Northeastern Brazilian and her one and only mother language was Portuguese in a Northeastern accent. But people thought she had some accent just because of her small speech impairment.

@GAguiardeCarvalho

3 жыл бұрын

@@Homoclassicus It is very common in Brazil, especially in the South, in some regions of German and Italian settlement, a foreign language is spoken at home and native Brazilian and Portuguese speakers do carry an accent throughout all their lives.

@Homoclassicus

3 жыл бұрын

@@GAguiardeCarvalho Yes, I know, but she herself denied that assumption. She said people thought she was still foreign in some way because of the way she spoke, but according to her it was just because she had some difficulty to pronounce some consonants, it was no accent at all. That's what she thought, so I see no reason to doubt it. The way she pronounces most consonants and the general prosody and entonation of her speech sound very Northeastern to me with a bit of Carioca mixed in, which agrees well with her life story.

@valkarkauskas9488

2 жыл бұрын

curious how did you make this assumption, and what do you mean by Baltic accent? Like some Lithuanian speaker would speak Portuguese?

pensa numa loba

She must have been sick then as she died at the end of the year,she seemed so sad.

bouncy and fun all the time she's a tough one to corner on any subject of intensity or introspection. One wonders if she's ever been a serious person or has she always been skimming along the surface of life with gay abandon?

I came from Dakota Johnson’s tea time anyone else?

So much similarity on character, personality, behaviour, with Kathy Acker, Ayn Rand and Patricia Highsmith. Especially Ayn Rand.

Entrevista estranhíssima, ela parece irritada e desinteressada e os silêncios são de certo modo incômodos. O jornalista fez várias perguntas interessantes, mas ela aparentemente estava desconfortável, a despeito de ter aceito a proposta da entrevista.

@soossabios2713

2 жыл бұрын

Ela está com câncer

@vante2425

2 жыл бұрын

Tem análises de psicólogos e outras pessoas no KZread que diz que ela fazia essas pequenas pausas para a outra pessoa entender e responder oq ela tava dizendo. Eu não sei explicar muito bem, mais pesquise que vc ira achar ótimas análises dessa última entrevista da Clarice Lispector.

Gracias por el video

“I’m speaking from my tomb”